Perhaps someone in America read my blog
yesterday. The Chinese space agency would seem to have a race on its hands. But
whilst the Chinese are sticking to traditional rocketry to get into outer
space, the new American plan is a series of airships to get progressively
closer to space, thereby obviating the need for rockets.
There's a trial airship which has (today) beaten the previous altitude
record for such vehicles. I wonder how practical balloons will turn out to
be...After all is said and done, it’s not an original idea – the Romanians were trying
it a
couple of years ago.
Some of my loyal readers tune into this
drivel on their iPads. I wonder if this iPad will ever look in my
direction – customised with gold and diamonds it has a frame of ammolite and
even fragments of dinosaur bones. A snip at a mere five million quid.
For those of my loyal reader who aren’t quite
so flush for cash, perhaps a pair of Queen Victoria’s
undercrackers
might be a more realistic purchase – only ten thousand pounds. What on Earth do
you do with a pair of undercrackers that are over a century old?
And as I type this, next door are shrieking
at their dogs. Their dogs clearly have no intentions of doing as they are told.
I can’t pretend to be a dog fan: neither am I particularly anti-dog. But it
strikes me that a rather vital part of having a dog is the ability to instil
some control.
Perhaps that’s where I go wrong when I take
Fudge for walkies…
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